Hook.



N. C. GARLAND.

HOOK.

APPLIOATION mum SEPT. 23, 1910.

1,017,530, Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

awuvmtoz HOOK. 1,017,530. p ifi of Letters Patent Patented Feb. 13,1912. Application filed September 23, 1810. Serial No. 583,460. V To allwhom it may concern: a the hook sustaining the harness or meat Be itknpwn that I, NATHANIEL 'C. GAR- where they ,can devour the harness ormeat PAND, a citizen of the United States, residat their leisure. Inorder to overcome this mg at Chase City, in the'county of Meck- I haveprovided the. members comprising lenbulg and State of Virginia, have in:the sustaininghook with what I term a proand vented new and usefulImprovements in tective disk 9." This disk 9 is centrally pro- Hooks, ofwhich the following is a specificavided with a longitudinal slot 10, thelatter tion. being ofifa size equaling the distance be- This inventionrelates to improvements in tween the' outer end of the hook and thehooks, and the (primary object of the invenbody of the upper section 3,and the outer tion is to provi e a. hook of a sim 1e and inface of thesaid disk is contacted by the expensive construction, designe particueye6, so that the disk is effectively and seiarly. for h nging harness. andh curely Sustained upon the members of the ether meets on racks ordepartments, holdingdemce at their point of connection 7 s soconstructed as to but'at the same time the said disk is free to rawlingfrom the rack tilt i :Zfher direction so that a rodent uess or meat is halighting upon the disk from the upper secihe ess or meat tion of thehook or sustainin device will be ilring the sam thrown therefrom to thefi oor and away With theabove,'and'3th from contact with the harness ormeat susk I WhlOh w1ll appear as the deseriptlon propended by the hoogreases, the invention resides in the novel From the. bove description,taken in conconstruction and combination of parts herenection with theaccompanying drawings, it inafter fully describedand claimed. will benoted that I have provided an ex- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1tremely simple and effective device for the is a perspective view ,ofthe device conpurpose intended, and, while I have illusstructed 1naccordance-with, the presentim, trated and described the preferredembodivention. Fig. 2'is an elevation of'the device ment of theimprovement, as it now appears showing the protector disk in section. tome, minor details of construction, within In thev accompanying drawingsthe nuthe scope of the following claim, may be re mom] 1 des' ates arack or other suitable sorted to if desired. support, an .2 the harnessormeat hook Having thus fully described the invenada ted to be suspendedfrom the support. tion, what I claim as new is In t he present theharness or meat In a device for the purpose set forth a book 2 isconstructed of a, pair of sections or. pair of book members, one of saidhook members. 'One of these members, des' members being provided wit aneye, the mated by the numeral 3" has both of its en s second memberhaving one of its ends up-set bent in opposite directions to providehooks to engage with the eye, a disk having a cen- 4 and 5. The upperhook 5 is adapted to entrally arranged elo ated slot normally gage withthe sustaining "rack or member 1, resting upon the eye 0 the first namedbook while the lower hook is adapted to engage member and havl theup-set portion of with an eye 6 formed 3; on the lower section thesecond name hook member pass 2, The opposite end'o? the lower section isthrough the elongated slot substantially as provided with a hook 7 uponwhich the harand *for the purpose set forth. ne'ss or ham .or othersmall meat is sus- In testimon whereof I aflix my signature v I fro h inpresence of two witnesses: Itiswellknownthatpace's 'mwich harness andmeats urehejld; are f NA E GARLAND infested with rodents,aud thesenimals ob Witnesses: tain access to the harness or meat'bycrawl- T. E.SMYTH, Jn, E upon the bench or. support a dow i J. R, n. H m.

